the greatest canadian is wanye gretzky because he was the best hockey player called "the great one "
Medal record
Competitor for external image 22px-Flag_of_Canada.svg.png Canada
Ice hockey
World Cup
Silver
1996 Canada

Canada Cup
Gold
1991 Canada

Gold
1987 Canada

Gold
1984 Canada

Silver
1981 Canada

World Championships
Bronze
1982 Finland

World Junior Championships
Bronze
1978 Canada

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wanye gretzky was the greatest hockey player in canada for joing so many great teams like los angelas kings,new york rangers which were all hockey times that wanye gretzy joined in. He had numurous NHL records.
He is the leading point-scorer in NHL history, as well as the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season he accomplished four times in a row. In addition, he had over 100 points in 16 professional seasons.

Gretzky's hockey,number is 99,.
After his retirement in 1999,he was immediately put into the hockey hall of fame, and is the most recent player to have the waiting period waived. He became Executive Director for the canadian national men's hockey team during the 2002 winter olimpics, in which the team won a gold medal. In 2000 he became part owner of the Phoenix Coyotes, and following the he became the team's head coach.

Gretzky has owned or partnered in the ownership of two sports teams before becoming a partner in the Phoenix Coyotes. wanye gretzky is regarded as the best hockey player in nhl record history.he had over a lot of tropies but you can tell by his medal record that in the world championship and world junior championships he wasn't that great of a player.they call him the great one for his numorous hockey records.

I think wayne gretzky was the best hockey player for geting canada so far in hockey and winning the canada cup all those times ago and for trying his best but now he has retired and all his hockey records are in the top of the hockey hall of fame.

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